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as in to bicker
to express different opinions about something often angrily
club members were soon falling out about how to spend the money they'd made washing cars
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Recent Examples of fall out
Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
With a little more than three weeks to go, chances are dimming to revive the health care package that fell out of the year-end funding deal and add it to the next spending package.
—Peter Sullivan, Axios, 20 Feb. 2025
Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2025
The piece chronicles how Munro left Andrea to deal independently, as a young girl and as an adult, with the psychological fallout.
—The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2025
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Verb
But the line of research had fallen out of favor, largely because no one had good tools for studying them in the brain.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
With a little more than three weeks to go, chances are dimming to revive the health care package that fell out of the year-end funding deal and add it to the next spending package.
—Peter Sullivan, Axios, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
The abrupt slashing of city contracts — in some cases, money that had already been promised — to the local nonprofit sector is part of the fallout from a $130 million budget deficit that also resulted in layoffs of nearly 100 city workers.
—Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2025
The piece chronicles how Munro left Andrea to deal independently, as a young girl and as an adult, with the psychological fallout.
—The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fall out
Verb
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Without politics to bicker over or political visions to debate, the candidates mostly pitched themselves and their personal connections to the community.—
Jesse Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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Meeting in Munich This combination of carping about America, bickering with each other, and grandstanding for the cameras has typified European responses to the Russian invasion of Feb. 24, 2022, and the three years of war that followed.—
Dominic Green,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Despite its name, the Hard Rock Rivera Maya proved to be all about relaxation.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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The film has proven divisive, though, with some audiences puzzled by its breakneck tonal shifts and ambiguous ending.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But the blowback to Target’s DEI moves represents a significant challenge to its business and highlights the risks of companies abruptly moving away from diversity initiatives that still enjoy support on the left.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN,
19 Feb. 2025
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The blowback from the dismissal was fierce and immediate, stretching from SDNY to City Hall.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Formulated with zinc pyrithione (this is what actively fights flaky skin), squalane (boosts shine), and sugar kelp extract (prevents inflammation and bacteria growth), this is a total powerhouse haircare product.—
Gina Vaynshteyn,
StyleCaster,
26 Feb. 2025
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Russia has skirted around Pokrovsk, a city key to Ukrainian defenses in the east, rather than fighting inside the settlement.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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To this day, doctors can't explain why Lemons never experienced physical or mental side effects from the oxygen deprivation.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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However, everyone responds to it differently, and there may be risks for some people, such as the following: Common side effects: Water retention is common with the loading dose of creatine or when taken at high doses.—
Sarah Anzlovar, MS, RD,
Verywell Health,
27 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The fact that he was denied once needs to be noted in any future application for practice in the Southern District, the motion argues, claiming that Buzbee only reapplied to practice in the district at the buzzer in this case, and has failed to do so for his other civil proceedings.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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Pina’s lawyers argued that he and the San Jose Police Department were protected under qualified immunity, a legal principle that shields government officials from most civil suits.—
Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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However, as a by-product of PUNCH's entire polarimetric measurements, scientists will manage to make the most comprehensive polarimetric star map ever made, which will be invaluable to astrophysicists studying the properties of stars, such as magnetic activity.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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So, some embarrassment may be an unavoidable by-product of doing what needs to be done.—
R. Eric Thomas,
The Denver Post,
27 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The first is that when U.S. soldiers returned from the war there, protesters spat upon them in disdain.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
Foreign Affairs,
19 May 2016
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The flare comes after nearly a week of flares and coronal plasma ejections spat toward the planet that threatened disruptions to power and communications systems on Earth.—
Greg Wehner,
Fox News,
15 May 2024
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“Fall out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fall%20out. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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